What my bike sounds like

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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    Greg66 wrote:
    Wot he said.

    You can't hear my bikes. The sound wave that they produce arrives after they do. 8)
    That's nothing. My bikes have a blue tint as they approach, and are slightly reddish once I've passed.
  • edhornby
    edhornby Posts: 1,780
    Star Wars Imperial Death March wrote:

    Dum Dum Dum, Dum-daDum, Dum-daDum - Dum Dum Dum, Dum-daDum, Dum-daDum

    Your powers are weak old man... I am your master now young scalpwalker...
    "I get paid to make other people suffer on my wheel, how good is that"
    --Jens Voight
  • mcmullej
    mcmullej Posts: 136
    My Bowery clicks, scrapes, grinds, resonates and clanks in a really bad free-jazz style.

    I only noticed these noises after I rode my Roubaix Comp. 'Ruby' is silent. Absolutely silent. Except for this resonating from the headset which always started after about 15km into a ride. Turns out it was not the headset. It was my half-filled bidon. Full, it's silent. Empty it's silent. Half-full it goes drubbadrubbadrubba...

    Took me a few trips to figure that out.
  • bluesacs
    bluesacs Posts: 95
    Usually it's as quiet as a shadow, but when I brake then it sounds like a denied valkyrie.
  • vanquished
    vanquished Posts: 66
    If I'm pedalling smoothly I can get away with the hum of rubber on road and a odd pinging noise that sounds like something hitting my rear spokes.........still can't figure out what the feck is causing this one!

    On the Vanquish, I discovered that the 'ping' that was ruining the near silent ride was... the left over cable for the front mech hitting the drive side crank arm every revolution...
    2008 carrera vanquish - FCN: 8
    2009 giant bowery 72 - FCN: 5
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Always Tyred wrote:
    Greg66 wrote:
    Wot he said.

    You can't hear my bikes. The sound wave that they produce arrives after they do. 8)
    That's nothing. My bikes have a blue tint as they approach, and are slightly reddish once I've passed.

    @ AT, here's a jersey for you then:

    doppler-J.jpg
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    arrrhhh my eyes :lol:
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • snellgrove
    snellgrove Posts: 171
    I wouldn't know how to describe the sound my bike makes, but it does make one. I guess the frame just echoes what the road is saying to the tyres, in it's own sort of voice.

    Other than that its clunk-clunk-clunk of the shifters on the handlebars (Think somethings loose somewhere?? bit of play in the left one) if I've not got my hand on it. I guess it's easy to take off and have a look at, perhaps Sheldon has an article somewhere :)
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    After yesterdays full strip down I'm left now with an occasional click from the chainring bolts when I lay down my awesome POWER :lol::lol::lol:
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • Mojosdad
    Mojosdad Posts: 3
    A lovely humming noise interspersed with the most annoying twanging of the gear cables as I go over the crater pitted moon surface the council seeming especially apply to the inside 1m of both sides of the road in these parts.....
  • janm399
    janm399 Posts: 132
    My TT bike with deep rim wheels sounds like the Galactic Empire's lambda class shuttle from the Star Wars; I can't quite put a name on my road bike with Fulcrum Racing Zeros -- it just swooshes along if I pedal hard enough :)
    Computer geek, Manchester Wheelers' member since 2006

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